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	Encyclopedia: Social Democratic Party (Portugal)
		The Social Democratic Party (Portuguese: Partido Social Democrata) is a political party in Portugal.
		Six-sevenths of the population of continental Portugal inhabit the provinces north of the Tagus.
		In 1095 Portugal was an obscure border fief of the kingdom of Leon.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Social-Democratic-Party-(Portugal) (886 words)

	Portugal
		Afonso I of Portugal Afonso I Henriques of Portugal (Coimbra.
		Afonso VI of Portugal Afonso VI (House of Braganza.
		Isabella of Portugal Isabella of Portugal (or Isabel in Lisbon.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/portugal.html (1551 words)

	Portugal. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Portugal is bordered by Spain on the east and north and by the Atlantic Ocean on the west and south.
		Estremadura, in W Portugal, has broad, alluvial plains, rising to cool and rocky uplands; along the Atlantic coast is a celebrated resort region, reaching to the town of Estoril, near Lisbon.
		Social Democratic victories in the Dec., 2001, local elections led Guterres to resign as premier and party leader in 2001.
	www.bartleby.com /65/po/Portugal.html (3353 words)

	Portugal Essay
		However, his Socialist Party continued to lose support as the Social Democrats won a majority of the legislative seats as well as a slight majority of the popular vote in the 1987 elections.
		The party terminated in 1974 with the military coup, which also dissolved the Assembly until elections were held in 1975 for a constituent assembly to draw up a new constitution.
		The Independent Social Democratic Party competed in a bloc with the Socialist Party and the Union of the Socialist and Democratic Left in 1980 and received four seats.
	www.janda.org /ICPP/ICPP2000/Countries/1-WestCentralEurope/17-Portugal/Portugal63-00.htm (1575 words)

	Heralding change (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Socialist Party should be particularly happy with the results, as it has managed to gain a simple majority on its own in the national Parliament for the first time since the overthrow of the right-wing Antonio Salazar dictatorship in 1974.
		The party was not happy with the prospects of sharing power as its earlier attempts at political cohabitation were not too successful.
		The leaders of the Portuguese Socialist Party, like their social democratic counterparts in the rest of Europe, are avid proponents of privatisation and globalisation.
	www.flonnet.com /fl2206/stories/20050325000606200.htm (1013 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Portugal gets new prime minister
		Portugal's President Jorge Sampaio has nominated the leader of the centre-right Social Democratic party, Jose Manuel Durao Barroso, prime minister.
		Popular Party leader Paulo Portas has said he is willing to discuss forming a coalition, and it is expected that they will be offered at least two seats in the cabinet.
		The Popular Party promised in its manifesto to introduce tight limits on immigration, to lower the age at which young people can be jailed, to oblige schoolchildren to sing the national anthem every day, and to prevent any further transfer of powers to the European Union.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/europe/1885382.stm (339 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Social Democratic Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	ca.encarta.msn.com /Social_Democratic_Party.html (167 words)

	Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Europe Division - Portugal Country paper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Portugal was the centre of a vast and wealthy trading empire in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, but its absorption by Spain in the late sixteenth century, although reversed sixty years later, brought the loss of its pre-eminence.
		Portugal, which is one-quarter the size of Spain in terms of population and territory, has often felt overshadowed or dominated by the Spaniards.
		Portugal is represented in New Zealand by its Embassy in Canberra, and by honorary consulates in Wellington and Auckland.
	www.mfat.govt.nz /foreign/regions/europe/countrypapers/portugal.html (1193 words)

	Portugal (01/06)
		Portugal was the first country to breach the Eurozone's Stability and Growth Pact budget deficit target of 3%, with a gap equal to 4.2% of GDP.
		Portugal was a founding member of NATO; it is an active member of the alliance by, for example, contributing proportionally large contingents in Balkans peacekeeping forces.
		Portugal was a strong advocate of independence for East Timor, a former Portuguese colony, and has committed troops and money to East Timor, in close cooperation with the United States, Asian allies, and the United Nations.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/3208.htm (2624 words)

	Socialist Party (Portugal)
		The flag is red with the party symbol in the centre, which consists of a closed hand within an outlined circle surrounded by another outlined circle.
		The flag of the Socialist Party is a red rectangle, having in the upper left corner the symbol of the party.
		Although the portuguese Socialist Party uses a fist as its official emblem, the more modern and moderate “socialist rose”, used by so many “center left” european parties, also shows in many party graphic material — indeed a sharp contrast with the official symbol, a kind politico-graphical split personality disorder.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/pt}ps.html (591 words)

	Index of Economic Freedom 2004 - Countries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Portugal’s fiscal burden of government score is 0.2 point better this year.
		Portugal applies the same non-tariff barriers as the rest of the European Union, including quotas on certain products and dumping protection.
		Portugal has opened most of its industries to foreign investment and has liberalized the bureaucratic process for foreign investors.
	cf.heritage.org /index2004test/country2.cfm?id=Portugal (807 words)

	Opposition Dems Vote Strong in Race (Solialists lose in Portugal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The center-right Social Democratic Party, which has not won a national ballot for 10 years, won the cities of Faro, Coimbra and Setubal, and was running neck-in-neck with the Socialists in Lisbon and Oporto, according to polls by SIC television.
		Some inside information from Portugal: The Socialist Party (PS) is roughly equivalent to the left wing of the US DemocRatic Party, and it has in it's ranks a significant number of supposedly ex-communists who left the communist party.
		The Social Dems (PSD) are politically to the left of the US Republicans on most issues but are not equal to the socialists: they tend to favor tax-cuts, privatization of state-owned enterprises and reduced government spending.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/591950/posts (1587 words)

	Portugal country profile - EUbusiness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Portugal occupies the south-western portion of the Iberian Peninsula and is divided into eight regions that include 308 municipalities.
		The Social Democratic Party, a centre-right political grouping, won the general election of March 2002 (PSD, 105 seats).
		Portugal became a member of the European Community in 1986 and is a co-founding member of NATO.
	www.eubusiness.com /Portugal/53234 (383 words)

	Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Portugal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Portugal's President is directly elected by its citizens to a five-year term of office.
		The former prime minister belongsto the Social Democratic Party, which won the political elections of March 2002.
		Portugal joined the European Community in 1986 and is a founding member of NATO.
	www.esteri.it /MAE/eng/3_22_40_215.asp (423 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Opposition Socialists win in Portugal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		LISBON, Portugal --Socialist leader Jose Socrates was expected to take his first formal step Tuesday toward becoming Portugal's fourth prime minister in three years, meeting with the country's president after his center-left party won in a landslide.
		The election brought defeat for the Social Democratic Party and the Popular Party, whose three-year conservative coalition government failed to lift Portugal out of an economic crisis and angered many by backing the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
		Portugal has long based its growth on low-skill, low-pay sectors such as textiles and footwear, and those sectors are now up against higher-skilled, lower-paid competition from new EU members in eastern Europe and from outside the 25-nation bloc.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2005/02/21/opposition_socialists_win_in_portugal?mode=PF (490 words)

	Portugal Party of the Social Democratic Center - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Party of the Social Democratic Center (Partido do Centro Democrático Social--CDS) was a Christian democratic party to the right of the political spectrum.
		The party was founded in 1975 by Diogo Freitas do Amaral, a respected politician and a professor of administrative law.
		Since then the party lost much of its electoral support, gaining only a little more than 4 percent of the vote in the 1987 and 1991 parliamentary elections, and seemed consigned to lesser political significance.
	www.photius.com /countries/portugal/government/portugal_government_party_of_the_social_~10601.html (265 words)

	Foreign & Commonwealth Office Country Profiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Monarchy was overthrown in Portugal after the assassination of King D Carlos in 1908, and in 1910 Portugal was proclaimed a Republic.
		In 1990/91, Portugal was one of the main brokers, along with the USA and USSR, of the Angolan cease fire (Bicesse Accords) and has remained substantially involved both commercially and politically in Angola.
		In September 1992 Portugal began a series of informal talks on East Timor with the Indonesians, under the auspices of the UN Secretary General.
	www.fco.gov.uk /servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1007029394365&a=KCountryProfile&aid=1019061813652 (1586 words)

	CICC \| Europe/CIS :: Portugal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Portugal ratified on 5 February 2002, becoming the 51st State Party.
		The Parliament was granted powers to amend the constitution by Resolution 27/2001, adopted by the President of Portugal on 29 March 2001 (published in the Legislative Official Journal on 4 April 2001).
		Progress Report by Portugal, "The Implications for Council of Europe Member States of the Ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court," Strasbourg, 2001, and translation of the Rome Statute in Portuguese is available at the Council of Europe's website: http://legal.coe.int/icc/Default.asp?fd=docsandfn=Docs.htm/
	www.iccnow.org /countryinfo/europecis/portugal.html (453 words)

	Social-Democrat Party (Portugal)
		The Social Democrat Pary (PSD - Partido Social-Democrata) is the previous ruling party, won two absolute majorities in the ’80s and in the beginning of the ’90s.
		Ideologically, it is a liberal-conservative party, but was able to congregate the vast majority of the right-wing votes.
		The dominant political party on the island is PPD/PSD (conservative).
	www.atlasgeo.net /fotw/flags/pt}psd.html (315 words)

	Portugal: political crisis deepens ahead of February elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Endorsing Sampaio’s decision, Socrates said that his party would win a majority in the February election based upon a promise of “responsibility,” declaring he would “make use of the things that were done well” by the Social Democrats.
		The average salary in Portugal is 750 euros, compared to 100 euros for a labourer in Bulgaria, and 350 euros for a qualified worker in the Czech Republic.
		Portugal’s current public sector deficit of 5 percent of GDP is far above the EU limit of 3 percent.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2005/jan2005/port-j17.shtml (1144 words)

	AllRefer.com - Portugal - Social Democrat Party \| Portuguese Information Resource (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It was soon overtaken, however, by the PS as the main opposition party, and it moved toward the democratic center.
		As the party began to occupy the broad center of the political spectrum under the dynamic leadership of Francisco Sá Carneiro, the PSD's electoral support grew.
		The party formed an electoral coalition with the PS in 1983, the Central Bloc, and was in government until 1985 when the coalition ended.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/portugal/portugal140.html (517 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Portugal PM resigns
		Their main rivals, the Social Democrats, headed by former Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Durao Barroso, won local elections on Sunday in most of Portugal's biggest cities, including the capital Lisbon, the northern industrial city of Porto and the Lisbon suburb of Sintra.
		Supporters of the opposition Social Democratic Party took to the streets in celebration at their better than expected results.
		The party has lacked unity since it failed to oust the Socialists at the last general election, but after Sunday's results Mr Barroso said it was in a position to offer Portugal an alternative government.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1714000/1714941.stm (396 words)

	Wikinfo \| Socialist International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Its members include The Labour Party (United Kingdom), SPD (Germany), the Democratic Socialists of America (USA), the Australian Labor Party, and New Democratic Party (Canada).
		In the 1980s, most SI parties gave their backing to the Nicaraguan Sandinistas (FSLN), whose leftwing government had incited enmity from the United States.
		The Party of European Socialists, a party active in the European Parliament, is an associated organization of the Socialist International.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Socialist_International (565 words)

	AllRefer.com - 1UpInfo > Turkey > Social Democratic Populist Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In early 1995, the junior partner in the Çiller government was the Social Democratic Populist Party, known by the Turkish acronym SHP, for Sosyal Demokrat Halkçi Parti.
		The Motherland Party's policies and constituency were similar to those of the True Path Party, but the intense personal rivalry between Demirel and Özal had precluded political cooperation between the two parties prior to Özal's death in 1993.
		The party's cohesion had depended on the force of Özal's personality, and in early 1995 it was unclear whether Yilmaz would succeed in transforming the Moth erland Party into an effective organization based on a coherent political program and ideology.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/turkey/turkey84.html (1038 words)

	Biography for Willy Brandt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1948, he began his political career with the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in Berlin and became a German citizen again.
		Brandt was the Social Democratic Party candidate for Chancellor in 1961 and lost to Konrad Adenauer's conservative CDU.
		In 1983, when it was widely feared that Portugal would fall to communism; Brandt supported the democratic socialist party of Soares, which won a major victory, thus keeping Portugal democratic.
	www.brandt21forum.info /Bio-Brandt.htm (650 words)

	Iraq debacle creates crisis in Portugal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The party leadership supported the GNR’s original deployment and the appointment of José Lamego—a secretary of state for foreign affairs in the former Socialist Party administration—as the “principal counsellor” of expatriate and immigrant affairs under US proconsul Paul Bremer in Iraq.
		He complained that Portugal was in “a profound crisis in which certain elites are at a loss to discern which is the right path to take [whilst] the overwhelming majority of Portuguese feel viscerally the inequality and tragedy of rising unemployment in a society in which the horizon is being obscured.”
		Durão Barroso’s Social Democratic Party coalition government came into power in 2002 on a programme to slash corporation tax and public spending and privatise the remaining state-owned corporations and health care.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/may2004/port-m13.shtml (828 words)

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